Tania Kouteva#
| Membership Number: | 4487 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2000 Professor of English Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany
- Since 2012 Professorial Research Associate in the Linguistics Department of SOAS, University of London, UK
- 2009 - 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Feodor-Lynen Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London, UK
- 2006 Visiting Professor at the Netherland´s Royal Academy, Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands
- 2004 - 2005 Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2002 Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- 1999 - 2000 Research Associate at the University of Hamburg, Germany
- 1994 -1999 Research Associate at the University of Cologne, Germany
- 1981- 1990 Assistant-Professor of English, Foreign Language Centre and University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fields of Scholarship
- Discourse Grammar
- Auxiliation
- Grammatical typology
- Relative clause construction in the world´s languages
- Language change
- Language contact
- Elaborateness of marking in high-contact varieties
- Sociolinguistics
- Genesis and evolution of human grammar
- Grammaticalization
- Cooptation
- Grammatical categories across languages
- Semantically elaborate grammatical categories
- Contact-induced grammaticalization;
- Discourse Grammar and brain lateralization
- Avertive as a cross-linguistically identifiable grammatical category
- Thetical Grammar
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Research Fellowship for a Visiting Professorship at the Excellence Initiative of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2014 Research Fellowship for a Visiting Professorship at J. Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- 2009-2012 Alexander von Humboldt Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Scholars at SOAS, University of London, London, UK
- 2006 Research Fellowship as a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands
- 2004-2005 Research Fellowship for a Visiting Professorship at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
